-
125Constraints on sceptical hypothesesPhilosophical Quarterly 60 (240): 449-470. 2010.I examine the conditions which hypotheses must satisfy if they are to be used to raise significant sceptical challenges. I argue that sceptical hypotheses do not have to be logically, metaphysically or epistemically possible: they need only to depict scenarios subjectively indistinguishable from the actual world and to show how subjects can believe what they do while not having knowledge. I also argue that sceptical challenges can be raised against a priori beliefs, even if those beliefs are nec…Read more
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Experimental Philosophy |
Moral Psychology |
Science and Religion |